Famous quotes containing the words queen, grammar and/or school:
“The Queen had one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. Off with his head! she said without even looking around.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“And Guidobaldo, when he made
That grammar school of courtesies
Where wit and beauty learned their trade
Upon Urbinos windy hill,
Had sent no runners to and fro
That he might learn the shepherds will.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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